Friday, October 09, 2015

It is finally playoff day for the Dodgers. Are you excited? I sure am.

And I know for sure that the field at Dodger Stadium is raring to go. Just look at the NLDS logo in the photo above, via Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2015. Doesn't it look great on the field? Heck the only thing that could possible look better is a World Series logo. Am I right?

Go here to check out a bunch of pics from the Dodgers workout yesterday by Jon. You can also find out information about all the events and pregame activities for Game 1 and Game 2 here. Below are more links to check out:

As you have surely read by now, Vin Scully will be missing the playoffs due to a recent medical procedure that requires some rest. He will sorely be missed. I look forward to seeing him again next season.

You can listen to Scully for hours and never hear a familiar platitude
or a half-­baked thought. His technique, however, is rather simple. He
describes the action in front of him just as he encounters it. His
demeanor is jovial, neighborly — Mr. Rogers goes to Chavez Ravine. He
quotes Dylan Thomas and offers old-­fashioned homilies about the weather
(Scully still refers to a breeze as a ‘‘zephyr’’). He coos over
children and leads viewers, his ‘‘friends,’’ through stories about
everything from the time he went ice-­skating with Jackie Robinson to
the time he dreamed of being chased by a giant clam (he had just shared
an Italian dinner with Tommy Lasorda, you see). In his voice, you can
hear traces of radio plays, New York’s prewar slums, Broadway — a
lifetime of experience spent in what, in its more romantic era, was
called show business.

BTW, Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider passes along the game times for the remainder of the series. Game 3 at 5:07 p.m. (if there are four MLB playoff games that day) or 5:37 p.m., Game 4 at 5:07 p.m. and Game 5 at 5:07 p.m.

“I’m really excited, not anxious or nervous or anything,” Hernandez
said. “As a little kid, you’re always dreaming of playing in the seventh
game of the World Series, either pitching or hitting. To play in the
World Series, you’ve got to make the playoffs.”

"How would I have seen this coming? I'm in Tacoma, I have the worst travel schedule that I've ever had in my whole life. My back hurt on the buses, my back hurt on the plane," Ruggiano said, smiling. "There's no way I could have ever seen this happening. It's kind of been a dream month."

"When you talk about what I learned -- I learned baseball, Dodger
baseball," Collins said. "And at a time when you can walk out on the
field in Spring Training and you had [Don] Drysdale and [Sandy] Koufax.
And Maury Wills, Wes Parker. And Roy Campanella was talking after dinner
at night. You talk about learning baseball and learning the history of
the game ..."

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